Genres: Jazz Flashcards
When was big band and swing jazz?
1930’s and 40’s
Give three instrumentation points for big band and swing jazz
Female and male vocals
Acuostic/double bass
Piano
Give three influenes for big band and swing jazz
Ragtime
Blues
New Orleans jazz
Give a main artist for big band and swing jazz and one of their songs
Billie Holiday: Summertime
Describe stride piano
Piano style using alternating bass notes and chords in the left hand to create the pulse, with melodic interpretation in the right hand.
Describe the boogie woogie style of piano
Left hand playing heavily swung quaver patterns alternating between a walking scalic pattern on the beats and octave root notes on the off beats. RH plays melodies.
Give the dates for gypsy jazz
1930’s to 50’s
Give three instrumentation points for gypsy jazz
Acoustic steel guitars
Double bases
Violin
Give one main artist for gypsy jazz and their song
Django Reinhart and his Quintette du Hoot Club De France: Minor Swing
Give the date of bebop jazz
1940’s to 1950’s
Give the date of cool jazz
1940’s to 1960’s
Give the date of free jazz
1950’s 1960’s
Give the instrumentation of bebop, cool and free jazz
Small combos, normally instrumental with no vocals.
Give an artist of bebop
Dizzy Gillespie
Give an artist of cool jazz
Dave Brubeck
Give an artist of free jazz
Sun Ra
Describe free jazz
Free jazz was hard to listen to, with lots of inprovsation
Give three points about the technology and production in the jazz era
1) Much better quality from 1950’s
2) Use of tape decks and improvement in microphone and amps/mixing desks
3) Little use of multitrack and live ensemble performances
Give 2 points to describe latin jazz
1) 1960’s - American players collaborated with Latin American musicians
2) Purcussion parts influenced by bossa nova
Give one jazz fusion band
Snarky Puppy
Give the dates of the origins of blues
Late 1800’s/early 1900’s
Give two influences of blues music
1) Ragtime
2) African-American work songs
Give the instrumentation of blues music
Early acoustic blues: Vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, harmonica
Electric blues: Usually male vocals, electric guitar, bass, drums, harmonica
Describe blues quickly
Melancholy lyrics, from the working class community in America, migration into cities…
Give one early acoustic blues player and one of their songs
Big Joe Williams: Baby, please don’t go
Give one electric blues player and one of their songs
Muddy Waters: Hoochie Coochie Man
Blues players developed the __________
Blues players developed the soud of the overdriven guitar
Give three independant 1950’s record companies
1) Sun Studio
2) Chess records
3) Atlantic records
Give two facts about sun studio
1) Set up in 1950 in Memphis
2) Run by Sam Phillips who is particulary associated with the use of slapback tape delay as part of the rock’n’roll sound
Give two facts about Atlantic Records
1) Based in New York and well known for jazz recordings
2) An important label for soul in the 1960’s
Give the dates of rhythm and blues music
1950’s to 1960’s
Give the influences of rhythm and blues music
1) Blues
2) Boogie-woogie
3) Doo-wop
4) Gospel
Give the instrumentation of rhythm and blues music
Mixed gender vocals
Horn sections
Drums and piano etc…
Give one famous rhythm and blues song
Chain gang
Give a key fact about rhythm and blues
The loose term was used to replace ‘race music’ in the 1940’s and 1950’s.
Give the dates of Rock’n’roll
1950’s and early 1960’s
Give the influences of rock’n’roll
Country
Blues
Gospel
Give 3 instrumentation points about rock’n’roll
1) Small ensembles
2) Predominantly male vocals
3) Electric guitar and double/electric bass
